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An edited group blog post by a medical doctor who researches breast cancer treatments has a good discussion of the science behind mass screening trade-offs: ht
by tokenadult 14y ago
An edited group blog post by a medical doctor who researches breast cancer treatments has a good discussion of the science behind mass screening trade-offs:
http://www.sciencebasedmedicine.org/index.php/once-more-into-the-screening-breach-the-new-york-times-did-not-kill-your-patient/ http://www.sciencebasedmedicine.org/index.php/once-more-into...
- danielweber 14y agoThat opening anecdote fills me with rage. I've seen lotteries do loss-aversion advertising: wouldn't you feel bad if your numbers came up but you didn't play that week? Now we have doctors doing it, too: wouldn't you feel bad if you were one of the cases where screening would have helped but you didn't do it?